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Slackware bitchx Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA34870
Release Date: 2009-04-27
Popularity: 628 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Slackware Linux 10.0
Slackware Linux 11.0

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Slackware has acknowledged a security issue and some vulnerabilities in bitchx, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA25759
SA26578
SA27463

Change Page:
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